Polls: Clinton dominates South; Trump, Cruz scrap for Super Tuesday edge

America Rising, the opposition research firm, has been hired by the Judicial Crisis Network, which is already airing ads in a lot of these states for Republican senators. On the Democratic side, 11 states, along with American Samoa, will be casting ballots. “Donald Trump is a celebrity-just like me!”

“The silent majority is back!” he declared.

A Trump spokesperson did not respond to requests for an explanation.

Cruz, meanwhile, joked when asked if he would launch a probe into Trump’s hair.

Nixon made frequent references to the “silent majority” and the “forgotten majority”.

Two days before the make-or-break Super Tuesday presidential primaries, Sen. At the moment, though, Cruz is behind Trump in polls in six of the states where at least 37 percent of the voters are evangelical.

“I’ve released now nine years of taxes”, Cruz said. “And that’s OK. That’s what makes this country great is that people can have differences of political opinion”.

Noting that like Cruz has suggested Trump presidency would be “a grave mistake”, host Jake Tapper asked if he would still support his rival should he win the nomination.

“If Donald Trump were to ever become the nominee, immediately the hounds of hell will descend on him, tear him apart, everything he’s ever done from not releasing his taxes to all of his failed business dealings”, Rubio said. The state is the largest one up for grabs and also the home state of Mr Trump’s only other viable challenger – Senator Ted Cruz. Rubio is aiming to win delegates in suburban areas; Cruz is targeting smaller, more conservative communities. “It’s a scam. And we’re going to unveil it here, we’re going to reveal it”. “McCain and other Republicans in the foreign policy establishment saying they can’t trust Trump, there’s a potential for a splintering off of huge Republican base voters”, Greenberg said.

“We’re about to lose the conservative movement to someone who’s not a conservative and (lose) the party of Lincoln and Reagan to a con artist”, Rubio said Sunday on Fox News. He resigned in an uproar over allegations of torture of terrorism suspects and controversy over politically motivated firings of USA attorneys.Kasich praised Gonzales for his work “in a very hard time in our nation’s history.”Sometimes you have to take a stand, and that’s what Judge Gonzales did when he was attorney general of the United States”, he said”.

Eight years ago, former President Bill Clinton was viewed by some as questioning the legitimacy of the black presidential contender – Obama.

The region’s flip from Democratic stronghold to Republican bulwark is steeped in decades-old shifts in the national parties.

As he nearly always does, Cruz characterized Republican politicians as theoretically supportive of Second Amendment rights but never willing to spend energy to protect them.

Democrats will depend on growing minority populations and voters – white and nonwhite – clustered in heavily populated urban areas.

“We want to do well in Texas”.

“He conned all of these people who signed up for Trump University”.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton greets supporters at her election night watch party after winning the South Carolina Democratic primary in Columbia, S.C., Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016.

In Georgia, the NY businessman and former reality TV star leads among likely GOP primary voters with 30 percent support followed by Cruz and Florida Sen.

Sanders is expected to win in Vermont, his small home state in the Northeastern U.S. where few delegates are at stake, and also contend in the neighboring state of MA, the Western state of Colorado and the northern state of Minnesota.